I'm getting up in years and have decided it's time to clear out all the stuff I know my kids won't want. I started with trying to use up all the fabric I have. That has resulted in 14 completed quilt tops this year. I still need to start the quilting process.
My second project is compiling all my family's favorite recipes for my kids. I get frequent calls asking how to make such and such a dish. When I mentioned that that I should just make up a cookbook, they all loved the idea and I am still getting reminders of dishes to include. I'm going to get notebooks and decorate them for each person and I think I will place the pages in plastic sheets to protect them.
Along the same lines, I want to compile photo albums for each child, along with certificates and other things important to each of them.
Another thing my youngest son has requested is an autobiography from my husband and myself. We were talking one day about various relatives that he knew nothing about, things that we had done or had happen to us, and he wanted to know more. I thought about it and decided he had a good idea. Not only would he have information on his heritage, but also an eyewitness history of the times by the people who have lived through them. With my husband and myself he would get opposing views of various events since he is and always has been a liberal and I grew up a conservative. I've decided to take it by decades, my personal story as well as what was happening in the world at the time and my reactions to those events.
I tried to talk my mother into doing this because I knew so few of our relatives. Unfortunately she wasn't interested. My great grandfather came to this country from Italy and at Ellis Island they changed his name. I still don't know the original family name and since she died several years ago, I will never know.
Just something to think about.
My second project is compiling all my family's favorite recipes for my kids. I get frequent calls asking how to make such and such a dish. When I mentioned that that I should just make up a cookbook, they all loved the idea and I am still getting reminders of dishes to include. I'm going to get notebooks and decorate them for each person and I think I will place the pages in plastic sheets to protect them.
Along the same lines, I want to compile photo albums for each child, along with certificates and other things important to each of them.
Another thing my youngest son has requested is an autobiography from my husband and myself. We were talking one day about various relatives that he knew nothing about, things that we had done or had happen to us, and he wanted to know more. I thought about it and decided he had a good idea. Not only would he have information on his heritage, but also an eyewitness history of the times by the people who have lived through them. With my husband and myself he would get opposing views of various events since he is and always has been a liberal and I grew up a conservative. I've decided to take it by decades, my personal story as well as what was happening in the world at the time and my reactions to those events.
I tried to talk my mother into doing this because I knew so few of our relatives. Unfortunately she wasn't interested. My great grandfather came to this country from Italy and at Ellis Island they changed his name. I still don't know the original family name and since she died several years ago, I will never know.
Just something to think about.
A daunting but wonderful project and lots of luck with it. Take care.
ReplyDeleteThe cookbook is a great idea, even if you just write some of them down and give them to those that would love them (AKA me) that would be great too!
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